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“Our neighbourhood pool, which has a10 weeks of the year window to be open, is still closed for construction,” wrote Ryan Berkenshaw on SeeClickFix, who described it as “the life blood of the community in the summer heat.”

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“I am told the work cannot be done due to inclement weather. This isn’t California. Buildings go up (and how!) whether it is raining or minus 30,” which makes it hard to understand why weather is such a big obstacle to fixing the pool, said Berkenshaw.

“This is a large quality of life issue for people in this neighbourhood who don’t have thousands of dollars to spend to join a yacht club.

“I don’t understand why work couldn’t have started earlier. If this was the private sector, heads would be rolling.”

STATUS: Cheryl San Juan, who deals with media for parks and recreation, emailed to say the deck areas around the pools are being re-surfaced, “but due to the amount of rain we’ve had so far this summer, the work has been delayed.” Now that the rain has subsided, the contractor is making good progress on the repairs and should be done by Wednesday, said San Juan. But before it can be reopened, “operators need time to clean, paint, fill the pool, etc.,” she said, adding that they expect the pool will finally open on Saturday, July 27. Unfortunately, there’s likely to be a lot more hot weather between now and then. If there’s any way to speed it up, the kids in the neighbourhood will be grateful.

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